WARNING......This may gross some people out. Back in the day when my hubby and I went to bars and smokes "special" cigarettes, we had a very weird Maltese dog named C.C.

One night a friend of hubbys came home from a night out clubbing with us, and sat down in the floor by our fireplace while we smoked yet another special cigarettee. Our dog went over to him, and , ummmm, got extra friendly with our friends arm. Said friend just kept patting CC, and talking about how much our dog liked him..The dog was a going to town, if ya know what I mean. Denny and I were hysterical laughing...The next day our friend came by mad as h**l, he figured out why our dog loved him so much. I am cracking up just typing this. Yea, they call it puppy love.

Awww, that's so sweet. Nice that your parents cared so much about making a happy holiday for you!! It's like a hug from your parents every time you have that memory now.

In our high school, there were stairs in the "old" building and ramps in the new building, although both parts were connected thru one hallway only. We had a dairy farm across the street. Some of the seniors went and got a cow and led it up the ramp in the one building and walked it to the other building and left it in the stairwell. Cows dont have knees like we do, so they cant go down stairs. They can go up them however. The cow got further and further up the stairwell. When the next class let out and the cow was discovered over in the freshman wing, the teachers were in a panic. Without thinking, they kept trying to get the cow down the stairs to no avail. It wasn't budging. Right about at the time, a report came to them that there were suddenly a flock of chickens in the sophomore wing....more teachers chasing chickens.

Finally someone had the brains to call the farmer to come over and help....and he knew to lead the cow back down the ramp and collected the chickens. He wasnt mad, he thought it was funny. (The students at our high school used to use his tractor barns to build our homecoming floats in every year, so he was well acquainted with the kids from our school.)

This probably wouldn't have been as good a prank if we lived in the country where most everyone probably knows about animals and how to handle them, but our high school was in suburban Philadelphia!!